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Situation. he hadrt spent years as a senio congressional staffer, but the kind of congressional staffer who worked mostly on investigations, specifically hard core investigations of things likeve organized crime a weapons of mass destruction and the foreign union and the international anti-narcotics efforts. all of the hardest stuff john sopko worked onff that. for years. forn years before that, he was state and federal prosecute e including years as a trial lawyer. he was the lead attorney in the first successful federal rico prosecution of the entire leadership structure of a crime family, w...

Provided that you did not want anybody to give you any happy talk about this particular situation he did spend years as a senior staffer but the kind you worked mostly on investigation. specifically hard-core investigations, of things like organized crime, and weapons of mass destruction in the former soviet union. and enforcement of the foreign corrupt practices act, and international anti narcotics efforts. all the darkest hardest stuff, he worked on that for years. four years before that he was a state and federal prosecutor. including years is a trial lawyer, in the organize prime in racke...

Department's organized crime and racketeering section. he was the lead attorney in the first successful federal reco prosecution of the entire leadership structure of the a american la costa crime family. john is not a pushover. he's not going to tell you things you want to hear unless you deserve it. in the decade-ish that he has been the man in charge of saying what we're doing wrong in afghanistan basically, his assessments have often been just brutal. at least they've been brutally blunt. here, for example, is how pro publica wrote up just one of his more well known findings, quote in 2008...

For a few days. use our military might and expand that area around the airport, and if you lay one finger on an american citizen we'll track you down for the rest of time. nobody believes joe biden has the stomach for that. what's the other way? to pay them off. like the iranians. he's paying off iranians. he's already given billions of dollars to the iranians so they can get nuclear weapons. the iranians are probably working with the taliban telling them this guy is a pushover, so they are negotiating the taliban. what are they giving the taliban? i would love to know, and for you folks who s...

[laughs] >> as heidy gold or, she was still cute and bubbly. but make no mistake, heidy was no pushover. >> she was kind of intimidating, actually. for being so small you wouldn't think so. >> at just 20, heidy started working in the not entirely feminine gas and chemical industry just outside salt lake city. sandi sanchez was one of heidy 's coworkers. >> we worked with hazardous chemicals and gases. [laughs] crazy things you would expect a couple of girls to want to do. >> seemed heidy to thrive in a workplace that favored hard hats over heels. >> it was dangerous if you didn't follow the ru...